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Chapter 14. Apache HTTP Server

A more complete list complete list of changes can be found online at http://httpd.apache.org/docs 2.0/.

14.1.2. Packaging Changes in Apache HTTP Server 2.0

Under Red Hat Linux 8.0 the Apache HTTP Server package has been renamed. Also, some related

packages have been renamed, deprecated, or incorporated into other packages.

Below is a list of the packaging changes:

The

apache

,

apache devel

and

apache manual

packages have been renamed as

httpd

,

httpd devel

and

httpd manual

respectively.

The

mod_dav

package has been incorporated into the

httpd

package.

The

mod_put

and

mod_roaming

packages have been removed, since their functionality is a subset

of that provided by

mod_dav

.

The

mod_auth_any

and

mod_bandwidth

packages have been removed.

The version number for the

mod_ssl

package is now synchronized with the

httpd

package. This

means that the

mod_ssl

package for Apache HTTP Server 2.0 has a lower version number than

mod_ssl

package for Apache HTTP Server 1.3.

14.1.3. File System Changes in Apache HTTP Server 2.0

The following changes to the file system layout occur when upgrading to Apache HTTP Server 2.0:

A new configuration directory,

/etc/httpd/conf.d/

, has been added.   This new directory

is used to store configuration files for individually packaged modules, such as

mod_ssl

,

mod_perl

, and

php

. The server is instructed to load configuration files from this location by

the directive

Include conf.d/*.conf

within the Apache HTTP Server configuration file,

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

.

Warning

It is vital that this line be inserted when migrating an existing configuration.

The

ab

and

logresolve

programs have been moved.   These utility programs have been moved

from the

/usr/sbin/

directory and into the

/usr/bin/

directory. This will cause scripts with

absolute paths for these binaries to fail.

The

dbmmanage

command has been replaced.   The

dbmmanage

command has been replaced by

htdbm

. See Section 14.2.4.4 for more information.

The

logrotate

configuration file has has been renamed.   The

logrotate

configuration file

has been renamed from

/etc/logrotate.d/apache

to

/etc/logrotate.d/httpd

.

The next section will outline how to migrate an Apache HTTP Server 1.3 configuration to the new 2.0

format.

14.2. Migrating Apache HTTP Server 1.3 Configuration Files

If you have upgraded your server from a previous version of Red Hat Linux upon which the Apache

HTTP Server was already installed, then the new stock configuration file for the Apache HTTP Server

2.0 package will be installed as

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.rpmnew

and your original version

1.3

httpd.conf

will not be touched. It is, of course, entirely up to you whether you use the new

configuration file and migrate your old settings to it, or use your existing file as a base and modify